Gurzuf Park is a landscape park on a seaside cliff on the territory of Gurzuf (Greater Yalta). Monument of gardening art. Founded in 1803 by order of the Duke of Richelieu. The area of the park is 12 hectares. More than 110 species and decorative forms of trees and shrubs are concentrated on its territory. In the park grow both local (small-fruited strawberry, Crimean pine, dull pistachio, high juniper, Pontic needle, Crimean cistus) and foreign species (evergreen pyramidal cypress, giant sequoiadendron, large-flowered magnolia, Lebanese cedar, Himalayan cedar, Atlas cedar, olive European, Lawson's cypress).
The park practices artistic cutting of plants - topiary.
Sculptures and fountains are located in the park, among which the composition of the fountain "Night" and the fountain "Rachel", created at the end of the 19th century, are famous.
Also in the park there are busts of Lesya Ukrainka, Adam Mickiewicz, Pushkin, Chekhov, Chaliapin, Gorky, Mayakovsky.
The park practices artistic cutting of plants - topiary.
Sculptures and fountains are located in the park, among which the composition of the fountain "Night" and the fountain "Rachel", created at the end of the 19th century, are famous.
Also in the park there are busts of Lesya Ukrainka, Adam Mickiewicz, Pushkin, Chekhov, Chaliapin, Gorky, Mayakovsky.
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